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Joe Lieberman as Rorschach Test
As this issue goes to press, the result of the November election is unknown. But whatever the outcome, the nomination of Joseph I. Lieberman is a moment of truth...
What Are You Looking For?
In Genesis 37:15 we read the story of how Joseph arrived in the town of Shechem in search of his brothers and his father’s flocks that they were pasturing....
Where Are You, Adam?
An angel came to me and told me that all the great questions are short. There are more guarded ways of saying this, but that is the way it...
The Demon in the Jewish Soul
Demons surface. For most people, demons surface in nightmares, but for us, for Jews, demons seem to surface in history. Pharaoh, Amalek, Nebuchadnezzar, Titus, Torquemada, Chmielnitsky, and Hitler were...